Hmm, Which of These Great Actors Will Godzilla 2 Kill Off Immediately?

One of the 2014 Godzilla's shortcomings—along with paper-thin human characters everywhere you looked—was a lack of presence in the "bad guys," those original nondescript bug-pterodactyls Godzilla fights, which in the movie were referred to as MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms). This was due to Legendary/Warner Bros. not being able to clear the rights to some of Godzilla's more famous foes from Toho, the Japanese studio where our favorite big radioactive lizard originated.

That's not the case in the sequel. According to a press release today to mark the start of filming, and confirming what we've known for quite a while now, Godzilla 2 will feature three more iconic Toho monsters in the form of Rodan (a big, scary, scaly bird), King Ghidorah (a dragon with three heads and who is Godzilla's ultimate nemesis), and Mothra (who is a big moth).

It's the moth we're all excited about, right?

In addition, the Godzilla 2 cast list has been confirmed. We're gonna see Bradley Whitford, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobbie Brown, and Kyle Chandler in this thing! Hopefully they will be ever-so-slightly less wasted than the first movie's stacked cast; lest we forget, Godzilla committed the cardinal sin of killing off Bryan Cranston in its first act. Curiously, Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch has been cast in an undisclosed role, after having appeared briefly (as a voice on the phone) in Kong: Skull Island. His character is almost certainly not the same as the '70s-set Kong, but it's an interesting choice nonetheless. Maybe the MonsterVerse is CROWDED with Thomas Middleditches.

One sad piece of news is the dropping of the title, King of the Monsters on the official press release, meaning it's likely to be replaced by something more boring and sequel friendly like Insurrection or Strikes Again or Godzilla: Now You See Him 2. That said, between Kong and Gidorah, we already have a surplus of "kings" onboard. Maybe Godzilla: Earl of the Monsters?

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